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Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed “Christ crucified” as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. In this book Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors to speak of the cross only in the most general, bland terms, precluding a full understanding and embrace of the...

the crucifixion as a means of execution, he says, that would normally cause shame for anyone associated with the victim. Paul is quite specific about this in the Corinthian letter. “It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe,” Paul writes. “We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.… For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Cor. 1:21, 23, 25). The words here italicized are piled
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